Summary[
edit] Description: English: Illustration of a shell of Littorina littorea (Linnaeus, 1758)
[1] and its operculum; named periwinkle, edible winkle, common winkle or common periwinkle
[2], and originating from the North Atlantic.
[3] This illustration has been edited with a white background replacing the old yellow background, on the page of the original illustration, and the mollusc's spiral was facing downwards and with a number beside it. Date: 1913. Source: Atlas de Poche des Coquilles des Côtes de France (Manche, Océan, Méditerranée) Communes, Pittoresques ou Comestibles; pl. 19. Edicted in 1913. (
Internet Archive). Author: Dautzenberg, Ph.